http://www.norwichbulletin.com/lifeevents/x1218085186/College-Graduations-June-1
College Graduations, June 1
Posted Jun 01, 2008 @ 12:00 AM
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JENNY ERASMUS of Colchester was one of nearly 700 students who
graduated from
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Erasmus, Jenny (MC2008)
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* Posted on: Sun, Jun 1 2008 10:46 PM
http://ncaamarket.ncaa.org/jobdetail.cfm?job=2892583
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Assistant Sports Information Director POSTED: May 16
Salary: Open Location:
Employer:
Category: Sports Information Preferred Education: Masters
Description
Requirements
A Bachelor’s degree is required, Master’s degree preferred with a minimum of 3-5 years of sports information experience. Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PageMaker, Quark, Statcrew, and web applications are also required.
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* Posted on: Mon, Jun 2 2008 6:06 PM
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=510222298582
[JR: Jaspers are looking better and better every year! FOWG ALERT!! Old Jaspers need to fill out a release before watching. It's not how you remember it. Heck, it's not how I remember it.]
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* Posted on: Mon, Jun 2 2008 7:08 PM
Buried inside the Jasper Magazine, she’s pictured on CNN. I can see the attraction. I’ll look to see if the CNN site has her video up. Good thing, she wasn’t teaching that when I was there. I might have gotten a D. Oh yeah, I did get a D! That ended my brief flirtation with ChemE. :-)
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* Posted on: Mon, Jun 2 2008 7:27 PM
REPORTING FROM THE FACEBOOK DESK
IN THE JASPER JOTTINGS NEWSROOM
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=528686623&ref=mf
Michael Calimano
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Calimano, Michael
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* Posted on: Mon, Jun 2 2008 8:52 PM
http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008806030407
Witnessing history during 40 years in a newsroom
By Bob Baird
Journal News Columnist • June 3, 2008
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Whenever I visit community groups to speak about the newspaper and my career, I point to three stretches of time as those that shaped my working life.
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This month in 1968 - a full 40 years ago - marked the end of my first semester as editor of the Manhattan College Quadrangle, the older of two competing newspapers on the campus during the Vietnam War era.
It was an incredible year to be editor of a college newspaper and we squeezed every drop of ink we could from the experience.
For a few years leading up to my editorship, the newspaper
had been increasingly critical of the college administration, the leadership of
My tenure wasn’t much different, except, perhaps in intensity.
We were still trying to figure out how to make our headlines
fit and how to pay the printing bills when the U.S.S. Pueblo was seized by
But there would be plenty more to comment on throughout one of the most unbelievable years in recent American history.
By the end of the month, the North Vietnamese had launched the Tet Offensive, pumping up the confrontation and the casualties in a war many already thought had gone on for too long.
Somehow, that, too got lost in editions dominated by news of a student government committee working on a plan to begin course and teacher evaluations, something that would be thwarted by the “unwillingness of the administration to cooperate.”
Students were meeting in
There had been some relaxation of the mandatory jacket-and-tie dress code, but students and the administration were still struggling with questions about whether jeans were appropriate.
After months of anticipation, Robert F. Kennedy announced in March that he would make a run for the White House and Johnson announced he would not.
Ads in the college paper that month offered eight days and
seven nights in
While we were on spring break, Martin Luther King Jr. was
slain in
A frequent contributor during that semester was a writer named James Patterson. Back then, he was trying to make sense of war, assassination and presidential politics. But you may have read more of his most recent work.
Listed in the staff box back then was a student named Jeff
Canning, from
Also listed in that staff box was the managing editor, L. John Durney III, who would become editor after me in January 1969.
He’s now provost and vice president for academic affairs - and teaches journalism - at St. Thomas Aquinas College.
Maybe we were lucky or just profited in an indirect way from
It made it possible for us to cover the track team’s refusal
to run in the annual New York Athletic Club track meet at
We had published our last spring edition in late May and were working our summer jobs when violence struck again - 40 years ago this week - with the assassination of a second Kennedy brother.
That August, several of us attended the United States
Student Press Association’s national conference at
We all passed through the armed camp of
We saw
When we weren’t paying $3, $4 or $5 to hear the Moody Blues or Richie Havens at the Fillmore East, we were rooting for the student-run club football team, which we hoped might someday be sponsored by the college, as happened at Fordham.
During the fall semester, we chimed in on the college’s need
to address a lack of diversity on campus and on issues like school
decentralization in
And, after a year of violence and turmoil, three astronauts beamed back images of Earth from outer space while reading from Genesis on Christmas Eve.
My year as editor was over, but my career path was set. A full 40 years later, if I walk back along that road, 1968 remains a crucial milepost.
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[JR: Wow! I don't remember two newspapers on Campus?]
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* Posted on: Tue, Jun 3 2008 6:06 PM
REPORTING FROM THE FACEBOOK DESK
IN THE JASPER JOTTINGS NEWSROOM
Another Casualty Of the Facebook Redesign: Network Pages To Be Discontinued
Erick Schonfeld
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Facebook doesn’t think a social network needs to have Network Pages. And maybe it doesn’t. I didn’t even know they existed until someone told me they are about to be killed.
When you join Facebook, you can also join certain sub-networks tied to where you live, went to school, or work. Those are being replaced by Groups, although any networks you already belong to will remain intact. You just won’t be able to see the activities on that network where members do so today, which is the Networks Page.
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I can confirm that they are in fact gone.
Take gun, insert bullet, pull trigger, and shoot yourself in the foot.
The big draw to Facebook was to gather alumni in a network. It did it automagically keyed to the email address. And by virtue of that email address, it was authenticated. That was a unique feature that differentiated in from MySpace or that ilk.
A bad misstep imho.
I’m not sure that this doesn’t make Facebook indistinguishable from LinkedIn, MySpace, or something else.
Argh!
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* Posted on: Tue, Jun 3 2008 6:57 PM
JFound: Cody, Chris (MC2006) remembers Joba Chamberlain
http://manhattancollegebasketball.yuku.com/topic/977
LASTING IMPRESSION
EX-JASPERS REMEMBER FACING, DEFEATING JOBA
By DAN TOMASINO
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LEARNING CURVES: Joba Chamberlain is hoping his first start for the Yankees today does not end up like the 2006 NCAA tournament game where his Nebraska Cornhuskers lost to the Manhattan Jaspers and Chris Cody, 4-1.
LEARNING CURVES: Joba ChamberlainJoba Chamberlain image is hoping his first start for the YankeesNew York Yankees image today does not end up like the 2006 NCAA tournament game where his Nebraska Cornhuskers lost to the Manhattan Jaspers and Chris Cody, 4-1.
June 3, 2008 –
Chris Cody remembers the sunny afternoon exactly two years and one day ago, when he stared down Joba Chamberlain and won.
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* Posted on: Tue, Jun 3 2008 6:59 PM
Education;
Published: March 23, 1988
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For much of its 135-year history,
And it is not alone. Many small private colleges around the country have been jarred by a shrinking college-age population and a growing consumer savvy among prospective students who want more for their money.
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The college’s new president, Brother Thomas J. Scanlan, installed last July, is the leader of the college’s attempt to change. To date, he is also the most visible reflection of that change.
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[JR: "NEW"!?!]
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* Posted on: Tue, Jun 3 2008 8:36 PM
ACTIONABLE OBIT: Daly, William John (MC????)
http://www.legacy.com/TCPalm/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonId=110975261
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William John Daly
William John Daly, 86, died June 2, 2008, at VNA Hospice
House in
He was born in
He was a member of
Survivors include his wife of almost 15 years, LeeAnn Daly of Vero Beach; son, William C. Daly of Wellington; daughter, Dedee Rumsey of Denton, Texas; stepson, Charles Seyler of Fremont, Ind.; stepdaughters, Sally Houck of Birmingham, Mich., Susan Bigger of Charlotte, N.C., and Marie Ann Miller of Chicago; eight grandchildren; and one great-grandson.
Memorial contributions may be made to the
SERVICES: Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. June 5 at Strunk Funeral Home in
Published in the TC Palm on 6/4/2008.
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(None cited? But I guessed.)
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* Posted on: Wed, Jun 4 2008 9:36 AM
http://www.jamati.com/online/style/haute-magazine-exhibiting-a-taste-for-the-culturally-tempered
HauTe Magazine - Exhibiting a Taste for the Culturally Tempered
Fashionista, Wadami,
of HauTe Magazine, shares her dream and views on
Interview by Grace Yama
Wadami - HauTe Magazine
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Oluwadamilola Amolegbe,
AKA Wadami A. or simply ‘Dammie’,
“has garnered a lot of respect amongst her fashion peers in the industry, and
is often called the “Anna Wintour of
Wadami talks to Jamati about having a passion for something, having a true sense of who you are and putting it all into plan.
Jamati: Hello Wadami,
can you give us a little background of yourself: Were you born and raised in
Hello, I was born and raised in
Jamati: Where do you currently call home?
If you had asked me this three
weeks ago, it would be
Jamati: Wow! Good for you! I am sure there is going to be even more exciting things from this move! You must have always been into fashion, do you have a formal background in fashion design?
I am not sure I will say fashion. Fashionable? Yes I have always been particularly ‘stylish”. My formal background is in print and online publications.
Jamati: You have definitely achieved a lot for someone of your age. Where do you get your drive and motivation from?
The fear of not living my life on my own terms motivates me and keeps me focused.
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[JR: I'd usually skip this 'fashion' person but she did say
'MC' and accounting, so maybe. Hope so. Good people ar
eneeded everywhere.
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* Posted on: Wed, Jun 4 2008 6:41 PM
http://www.ncaa.com/lacrosse-womens/article.aspx?id=258516
June 4, 2008
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Ward played four years at
On the field, Ward started all 14 games as a senior and registered three goals and 16 assists for the Jaspers. She also played in 10 games and started four times as a junior and had two goals and four assists. After each of the last three years, she has been named MAAC All-Academic.
Ward prepped at
Ward has coaching experience at the Detroit Lacrosse Club
during the summer months since 2005. She has also assisted at the University of
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* Posted on: Thu, Jun 5 2008 6:00 PM
ACTIONABLE OBIT: McMillan, Eugene (MC1950)
http://www.press-citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080605/NEWS02/806050324/1079/NEWS01
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Eugene McMillan, 83
June 5, 2008
Eugene F. McMillan, 83, of
Funeral Mass will be celebrated Tuesday, June 10 at 11 a.m.
at St. Wenceslaus Church with the Rev. Ed Fitzpatrick officiating. Burial with
military honors will be at
He served as Scout Master for Troop 35 in
Throughout his life, he held fast to his faith in God for guidance. He enjoyed his last few years, spending time with family — marveling at the beauty of his grandchildren and the flowering trees this spring.
Eugene is survived by his four children and twelve grandchildren; Stephen (Anne) McMillan of Denver, CO, and their children Matthew, Marcus, and Michael; Joseph (Liming) McMillan of Seattle, WA, and their children Jessie, Michelle, Alex, and Anthony; Rosemary (Peter) Persaud of Iowa City and their children Gabriel and Lily; and Daniel (Penni) McMillan of Iowa City and their children James, Patrick, and Thomas; his former spouse, Sally, of Albuquerque, NM; his sister, Sr. Mariella McMillan, of Rochester, NY; and his brother, Joseph McMillan, of Philadelphia.
Online condolences may be sent to www.lensingfuneral.com.
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* Posted on: Thu, Jun 5 2008 6:12 PM
http://seekingalpha.com/article/80098-msc-software-corporation-business-update-call-transcript
MSC.Software Corporation (MSCS)
Business Update Call
June 3, 2008 5:00
pm ET
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I’m going to be introducing to you a gentleman by the name
of Tom Cully. I, myself, have spent 12 years here at MSC and Tom makes me into
a short-timer. Tom’s been at MSC for 22 years. He actually started his career
in 1977 as he graduated with a civil engineering degree from
He initially worked in that as an analyst working in the industry, spent some time initially with us as a support engineer, and then he pretty quickly moved into a sales role because he found he was very good at talking about our products, articulating the value proposition around those. So since May of 1986 Tom has been an account manager.
He’s got one more unique distinction with respect to being an account manager at MSC. He happens to be MSC’s very first account manager. So you have a chance to talk today with one of the guys who’s the first one who had to deal with major accounts and has worked in this government industry sector for a long time.
One more thing that is very unique and very special about Tom as well. There’s probably plenty of things, but one that is interesting, hopefully to you, and that is that Tom’s lived with a quota for 22 years at MSC. And I’m sure he would be very happy to tell you that he has made this quota for the last 21 years of those 22 years. So he’s a very successful salesperson and has worked with some of our biggest accounts, United Technology, NASA. You’ll hear some of the other ones as we go forward here.
Tom Cully
Good afternoon, and thank you for that introduction. I am going to talk about our government group. I will talk more from a sales perspective and talk a little about the technology that the government is using through MSC. As we talked about, I’ve been in a number of positions at MSC. I got the pleasure of starting the government group about 2 years ago and received a new contract with the government. We actually got our start back in 1963 with a contract from NASA Goddard which led to our flagship product, Nastran. And that led to our other products including Patran and Marc have been heavily funded by the government.
Our group has grown steadily over the last two years. We
have made our numbers, as Ted has mentioned, and the build side showed
government at 5%. If you look at the
In the government there is great deal of complexity. It’s paperwork and regulation so we actually use a company called the Immix Group, they manage our GSA schedule, it stands for Government Services Agency. In order to do business with the government effectively you need to have a GSA schedule that can turn orders around in weeks as opposed to sometimes years.
So how big is the federal government? Of course it is the biggest consumer of goods on the Earth. Those numbers really are in trillions, so about $2.7 trillion is the budget for 2009, which is coming up for approval. Defense eats up a little more than half of that. Just from a perspective point of view, NASA is only $7.6 billion of the total $2.7 trillion, DOE is $25 billion. Even Homeland Security doesn’t exceed $35 billion. So you can see there’s quite a bit of money being spent elsewhere in the government.
In some information on the IT spend, the defense agencies spend about $32 billion on IT. As you can imagine, Army, Air Force, Navy, eats up quite a bit of that number. DISA, which stands for the Department of Information Assistance Agency, they essentially manage the IT for the government, comes in fourth. You have to come out pretty far on their scale, we do some work with DARPA, which is the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency besides the name services which I’ll talk about in a little bit.
On the non-defense side, or what are called the civilian agencies, as you can see the top getters are Health and Human Resources, the Department of Homeland Security, and you would be out five or six agencies before you would hit Energy or NASA. We actually do some work even with NSF, which is out on the energy scale.
Our focus is the government group but we really define governmental differently. The actual agency, federal, state, local, and their support contractors, so my group doesn’t cover anything with the prime contractor except with Boeing, Northrup Grumman, Lockheed, General Dynamics, and I have a chart coming up on that shortly.
We have a short-term and a long-term focus. Long term is really three years in the government, that’s how long it takes to secure funding for particular programs. We have four sales reps really focusing on these six agencies. As I said, NASA is our largest customer. We are selling both our legacy tools, the engineering products, as well as our enterprise groups, our new products, to the government.
Some of our long-term strategies really focus on government
programs such as light-tactical vehicle and the new tanker project, the
Constellation project at NASA. But we also work with the government
universities and industry groups to look at other aspects, particularly where
we can get future development of our products. That’s the
This is a list of the top contractors that represent the
On the NASA side we actually do cover some Lockheed and
Boeing with the
And on the bottom is our DOE top accounts and most of them are really managing DOE labs. For example, Lockheed Martin manages [inaudible]. So you can see some of these companies are getting their real fair share of the government budget. Some of the top getters are getting $30 billion.
As far as MSC goes, our three top accounts are NASA, DOD, and DOE. I will talk a little more about NASA but essentially we have about 48% of our business in NASA. We have about 31% in DOD, and about 15% in DOE, and then the balance is in other areas of the government. In the case of DOD we do pretty much split the revenue across the three services. In the case of DOE it’s mostly on the nuclear side where we have our business. The energy side is in renewable energy such as Lean turbines as well as nuclear are being typically funded as we move forward.
On NASA we are installed in nine of the ten centers. There
are a few more centers which are satellite centers such as
If you’ve been following some of the Mars mission, they just landed the PH Lander and it will be sampling soil on Mars. And what’s interesting about that, the robotic arm that they are using was actually designed using MSC.Adams. In about a year the new Mars robot will be out. It’s the size of a Mini Cooper. It was also designed with MSC.Adams.
As far as trends go, this is an election year, I don’t think anybody can miss that. It also has two wars going on. But this year the budgets are somewhat uncertain, both in 2008 and 2009. Some good news is that the government is quite interested in growing and modeling and simulation. And government defines modeling and simulation, everything from the battle field to, oddly, procurement cycles. We get involved in modeling procurement, try to predict what the government is buying, whether it will actually be commissioned. And we’ll talk a little bit more about that.
Some of the key areas of M&S at NASA is on the Constellation Program, which is their Moon-to-Mars program. They are coming up with a new vehicle to replace the shuttle, if you’re not familiar with the Orion program. Again, this is really focused on multi-discipline integrated analysis and our MD Nastran product really claims well here.
On the DOD side it’s all about protecting the war fighter and areas of impact of blast and we’ll show you a few examples of that. And DOD is unique in that it has not been able to test nuclear weapons for many years now so everything is virtual. We are developing massive amounts of data and we are working with a number of labs to try to manage that data for them.
Some other trends, the government is very interested in
high-performance computing. They have an interest in consumer high-performance
computing and they would like to see the masses using it as opposed to one or two.
So we are working with the
Some of you have been at the PTC Conference. They are a predominant player in our space. Particularly in NASA and Army. They have two initatives ICE and ACE to drive product innovation within those two agencies supporting Constellation and future combat systems.
As far as competition goes, it’s really no different in the government space. We see the same players. One important difference is we do compete with the government. They tend to make decisions of make versus buy and we’re always trying to educate them to prevent them from doing the make.
Frankly engineering is important so we don’t sell ROI to the government, it’s all about reducing risks and meeting mission requirements. And finally, one of the biggest pushes that we see coming up in the next few years is DOD is going to fund quite a bit of development in the area of nuclear engineering to nuclear energy to drive software modeling and simulation in that space.
Here’s three examples. This one
comes from the U.S. Army Picatinny Arsenal up in
The last one I will show you is with the Navy. It comes out of the office of Naval Research, particularly with the problems in shipping lanes today. Underwater explosions have become quite prominent, or concerns about underwater explosions. So, again, the previous slide was an example of our new capability in Nastran and R3, Solution 700. Here is another example where we have fluid suction interaction with the structure here.
That’s my brief presentation on our government activity.
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* Posted on: Thu, Jun 5 2008 6:38 PM
ACTIONABLE OBIT: Boyle, John Vincent (MC1948) New
http://www.legacy.com/UticaOD/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonId=111002066
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John Vincent Boyle
New
John Vincent Boyle, 85, of New Hartford, passed away on June
1, 2008, with his devoted family by his side. John had lived the last three
years in
John (Jack) was born on January 15, 1923, in
After the war, Jack returned to
Jack and Irene enjoyed many years of golf together at the Yahnundasis after his retirement. Jack served on numerous company and community boards, often as President. Boards included St. Luke’s Hospital, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, the United Way (Chairman), the Boy Scouts, Commercial Travelers Insurance Company and the Utica Chamber of Commerce.
Jack is survived by his beloved eight children. He leaves three sons and their families: Tim and his wife, Diane, of Philadelphia, PA, and their children, Jessie and Daniel; James and his wife, Judy, of Cincinnati, OH, and their son, Brian; and Brian and his wife, Martha, of New Hartford, and their children, Molly, Maddie and John. He also leaves five daughters and their husbands: Ellen and her husband, Charles Killilea, of Suffern, NY, and their sons, Charles, Jr., and Sean; Kathy and her husband, Andy Hold, of Rochester, NY, and their sons, John and Paul; Joan and her husband, Rick Willets, of Derry, NH, and their daughters, Kallie and Abbie; Mary Rose and her husband, Andy Fox, of Westborough, MA, and their daughters, Kaitie and Courtney; and Celine and her husband, Jim Foster, of Southborough, MA, and their children, Sarah, Caroline and Jack. He was predeceased by his grandson, Timothy Robert Boyle, in 1992.
A Mass to celebrate Jack’s life will take place on Saturday,
June 7, 2008, at
Published in The Observer-Dispatch from 6/5/2008 - 6/6/2008.
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* Posted on: Thu, Jun 5 2008 6:45 PM
http://manhattancollegebasketball.yuku.com/topic/978
Ronnie’s National Tv Moment(s)
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Watching pandemonium at
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[JR: That’s a great find!]
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* Posted on: Thu, Jun 5 2008 6:53 PM
http://members.whattheythink.com/allsearch/articleerc.cfm?id=34141
Thirty Years Ago This Date
FREE Marketing, Management and Economic Notes from Dr. Joe Webb
WhatTheyThink.com’s Economics and
Sponsored by MindFireInc.
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06/05/2008 — Today is a special day
for me, my first day at work in the graphic arts industry, thirty years ago.
Pardon the length of this posting… there is so much to remember from that day
and week, some amusing, some mildly profound. It was a Monday, and started with
a business trip, with the Friday to be the beginning of yet another new life,
with the marriage proposal to the still Mrs. Webb, at Woodlawn train station in
the
I was still living at home, and my father drove me to
LaGuardia airport in time for a 9:00am flight on TWA to
I waited and waited for Ed, and he never came. I had met him
twice before, so it wasn’t like I had missed him somewhere in the terminal. I
dutifully boarded the flight to
Ed was a graduate of
The time in Burroughs sales seemed to be formative for him, and loaded with anecdotes about his family. He loved to tell the one where his wife made him an extra special meal because he had gotten two orders that day. She didn’t speak to him for a couple of days after, he claimed, because he broke the news after the wonderful dinner that the two orders were from one customer and they were “get out and stay out.” Ed would eventually become Atlantic Region Sales Manager for Agfa until his retirement, and then would have a second career as VP of Sales for Superior Ink, a loyal and upright company man to the end, but always with the intent of creating good and long term customer relationships. There’s nothing like having six kids in the family, with four born in the space of 47 months, as an inspiration to keep your job.
I wouldn’t learn those things about Ed until much later, as
I sat alone in a packed plane to
They were having an ad hoc meeting, chatting about the
business, the show, customers, and personal things. I sat next to Ed Manielli, who admired my selection of open turkey sandwich
with cheddar cheese sauce and bacon bits. We chatted a bit, and about a year
and a half later, Ed would become one of my bosses, and more like a mentor,
even after I left the company, and he would move to GAF. He had served many
roles he served in the company. I would later see that Ed was deep into the
culture of the old Manhattan printing industry, one of the post-WWII executives
who never went to college but was more innately astute than you would have been
had you attended. There was a street smarts to the
generation who worked in the trade and sometimes ended up in corporate
positions. Agfa-Gevaert had many of them. Jim Massa, was one of them. He was a National Technical Manager
based in
I would eventually get to the show floor, escorted by some
of the Agfa-Gevaert sales people who learned about Ed
Haggerty’s stranding me with my itinerary. I had never been to a trade show
before, and had never seen a trade show booth. The massive displays of company
logos, other than Kodak, were of companies I had never known before. Harris? Compugraphic? What do those companies do? The Agfa booth
was rather small, but contained a big vertical camera, with all kinds of
attachments, to convert it to making color separations. It was a Frankenstein’s
monster of a creation, in retrospect, but was created to support a new color
separation process created by Agfa, called Transferlith.
Somehow, the making of color separation positives, rather than negatives as
used in the
That was the technical theme of the show: more color in newspapers. The idea was outlandish, but newspapers were heading in that direction, when Gannett’s grand USA Today experiment was nearly four years away. Newspaper color was bad, perhaps worse than that. The fact that it was usually out of register distracted one’s eye from the poor color reproduction. Some newspapers wouldn’t even run black ink in their process color, either because their presses couldn’t accommodate it for some reason, or the newsprint couldn’t handle that much ink. You ended up with browner blacks and blurry images, but like a child who just discovered the big box of Crayola crayons and was intent on using every one, they were just thrilled to have color images on the front page. Things have obviously changed since. Transferlith, it was hoped, would catch the process color wave (it didn’t; low-price color scanners did, just a few years later).
I walked the show floor a bit, learning about things like classified ad systems, something called “phototypesetting,” which was still pretty new then, and laser direct-to-plate, which would spend the next fifteen years being “only three to five years away” from really working.
On the days I was there, I felt more comfortable and took
the shuttle (school buses) back and forth from the hotel to the convention
center. I heard the driver talking with one of the passengers that he and his
wife had finally completed their goal of visiting all fifty states. Most of the
travel was done by car. Living in the near-center of the
I’d like to think it was my idea that we take in a ballgame Tuesday night. After all, the ballfield was right across the street from the hotel. It was Busch Stadium, the old one, one of the multi-sport abominations with the Astroturf that ruined athlete careers and made eighty-degree days forty degrees higher if you were on the field. It’s since been replaced for the good of the fans and the players. Luckily it was a night game. The Reds were in town, and it was the era of “the Big Red Machine,” who were still worth seeing. I always thought it was strange visiting a ballpark that did not pay homage to my beloved Mets, almost like I was a stranger who interrupted a close family event. The Cardinals won.
The Wednesday night the show was all done, and in process of
being torn down. I remember Myles Adler, the ad manager, who would later work
at Panasonic, and Diane Cielo, who was his assistant,
bringing me along with some others to a
Thursday was the flight back. Most of the Teterboro crew headed to
When I got to LaGuardia, my parents and my unsuspecting girlfriend, Annie, waited for me at the gate. I could see them through the window as they watched the plane pull up to the terminal. It’s amazing how much air travel has changed in these 30 years. The Ed Haggertys of the businessworld can’t time their airport arrival to be 15 minutes before their flight, and now no one can meet you at the gate without extenuating circumstances. It was always nice to see spouses and family members, significant others, friends, and associates meet travelers at the gates, something that’s just not the same when they meet in baggage claim. There’s more built-up anticipation actually seeing the plane pull up to the gate and seeing the first passengers emerge.
The next day was Friday, and because Teterboro
was on flex time (a still marvelous idea) the day was to end at 1pm. I left and
headed to
Since June 5 of thirty years ago, the industry and I, and Anne Nikl and I, through all the changes, challenges, and time, have been inseparable.
P.S. Here are some additional items related to my trip. Among the people staffing the Agfa-Gevaert booth were:
Ed Manielli (we still exchange Christmas cards), Pete Becker, John Sisson (who is now at Day International), Shelby Weinstein, Turner “Bill” Reid (who would later work for Dupont), Bob Topping, Barbara Richards, Dave Ditallo, and Dick Kashner. Perhaps some of the oldtimers remember these folks.
Al Coenen was the VP in charge of
Agfa-Gevaert’s graphic division. His father set up
the Gevaert Company of
Though I was there only two stormy years, many lessons stick with me to this day. Some silly things do, too. Agfa ended each month on the 26th for some convenience of the European financial departments. Whenever I realize it’s the 26th, I still think it’s the end of the month. Being there at the time of the silver crisis, when it hit $80 in January 1980 taught me more about marketing and competitive strategy, good and bad, than I had realized at the time. It all started thirty years ago, this date.
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Webb, Joseph [MC1978] memories include Haggerty, Ed (MC1950)
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REPORTING FROM THE FACEBOOK DESK
IN THE JASPER JOTTINGS NEWSROOM
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1027984339
Joe Enright
is saving humanity, one day at a time
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Networks:
Sex: Male
Relationship Status: Married
Looking For: Networking
Birthday: September 1, 1947
Hometown:
Political Views: Other
Religious Views: Moderately apathetic Heightsian
Website: http://www.argyleheights.blogspot.com
Personal Info
Activities: Saving the world, one day at a time. Reading, writing, but very little arithmetic. I don’t know what I like, but I know art when I see it.
Interests: Various activities that I perform in a heartfelt manner that makes me very endearing. Did I mention sensitive?
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Favorite Quotes:
“Sometimes I underestimate the magnitude of me.” - Reggie Jackson
“I suffered pain. I need law” - TV ad for 1-800-Pain-Law
“Tremble before me, mere mortals.” - Thor
About Me: One miracle short of being canonized a living saint and very humble, but in a matter of fact sort of way. Sure, I enjoy reading witty prose I have prosed, and playing beautiful music on my beautiful guitar, but let’s face it–all that artsy brainy stuff can’t compete with my new Porsche … Or is it a Mercedes? Since I am chauffeured at all times by my large retinue of assorted hangers-on or hanger-on’s as the case may be, who knows or cares? In any event, I am also a great philanthropist and give selflessly of my time to many worthy causes. For example, just last week I helped out in a soup kitchen for down and out victims of gnarly alien abductions.
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Enright, Joe (MC1968)
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* Posted on: Fri, Jun 6 2008 7:25 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_talk:Manhattan_College_alumni
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Category talk:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jack Taylor (19th Century Baseball Player) Alumnus Status
Greetings, all. My understanding is that it is not confirmed
that “Brewery Jack”
Of course, i’d love to be wrong!
:) If anyone has sources indicating
I’ll leave his article in the category for a time while the issue is open, and propose that we seek to either cite a source confirming his alumnus status (in his article or elsewhere) or remove him from the list if none can be found. I’m also very open to suggestions/corrections if there are more standard ways of handling cases like this; i’m just trying to be proactive. :)
Thank you and please let me know if there’s any other info out there!
An Earthshine 16:05, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Jack Taylor (follow-up)
Hello again. It’s been awhile since i’ve
checked in. Having not heard anything, i’m going to
propose removing this category from the “Brewery Jack”
Again, i’d be very very happy to see any sources to the contrary, but i
haven’t seen anything yet showing Jack Taylor’s status as a graduate or student
of
Thanks and please feel free to respond here or write me if you have any info on this.
An Earthshine (talk) 13:54, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
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[JR: Can we save Jack Taylor from oblivion?]
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* Posted on: Fri, Jun 6 2008 7:52 PM
Jaspers of
http://jaspers.plaxogroups.com
FJohn68 DonParriott
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* Posted on: Fri, Jun 6 2008 9:28 PM
http://spinsterdoesrome.blogspot.com/2008/06/june-6-2008.html
Spinster Does
venerdì 6 giugno 2008
June 6, 2008
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Tonight’s video. This is what happens when you have people
locked up in sessions for hours on end. A couple of nights ago I went to the
lounge to get a soda and found this strange tribal dance in progress. I should
point out it included people from
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Sounds like Jaspers!
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* Posted on: Sat, Jun 7 2008 6:16 PM
By Dr Joe Webb
Greetings to all Jaspers. Ed Haggerty was class of 1950.
Last I heard, Ed was still living on
* Posted on: Fri, Jun 6 2008 1:52 PM
By Tom N
I went to
* Posted on: Tue, Jun 3 2008 11:19 PM